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Old pros Mendelson and Alper continue a long onstage partnership in Artists Rep’s “The Children.” Plus: Ashland opens, new seasons, Lost Treasures & more.
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Old pros Mendelson and Alper continue a long onstage partnership in Artists Rep’s “The Children.” Plus: Ashland opens, new seasons, Lost Treasures & more.
In Part 2 of the “Queens Girl” trilogy, Lauren Steele dazzlingly embodies voices out of Africa; “Hamilton” and its hip-hop cousin settle in; “Titus” wraps things up.
The Portland stage star, 78, took classic turns in plays by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Noel Coward, and G.B. Shaw.
Picking up what they began in New York, Clackamas Rep and star Lauren Steele take a stellar tale continental. Plus Forgotten Women, Chick Fight, Taylor Mac & more.
Stage notes: A conservatory throws a musical-theater gala, mystery theater and Lea Salonga at the Reser, the slap heard ’round the world.
Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera shows how racism helped send innocent teens to prison
A conversation with writer Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, whose choreopoem “In the Name of Forgotten Women” is debuting at CoHo.
The movie star, who died in Portland on Sunday, performed in four plays with Artists Rep. Also: Getting grisly with “Titus,” comedy & more.
After a Covid postponement and with a largely new cast, Fuse Theatre’s premiere of Mikki Gillette’s play transitions to the stage.
An interview with the founder and creatives behind the non-profit PlayWrite
Portland Center Stage opens the masterful “Gem of the Ocean,” “The Queers” lights a Fuse, Milagro’s “Antigone” on the border, more.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the playwright and Borderlands Theater leader whose U.S. border adaptation of “Antigone” opens at Milagro Theatre.
Director Jessica Wallenfels and PSU actors dig marvelously into family dynamics and the myriad aspects of negotiating the deaf and hearing worlds.
Shaking the Tree searches for the baddest femme fatale of all time. Plus “Without Rule of Law,” audience behavior and more.
The managing director of the city’s biggest theater company will become vice president of a national arts consulting firm, helping to shape the next generation of leaders.
Corrib’s “Maz & Bricks” deftly juggles formula and function; young actors go lawless; “Thurgood” heads to the finish line.
Lester Purry’s fine solo performance as the first Black member of the Supreme Court finds a fitting tension in the Constitution itself.
Strongwoman Tera “Supernova” Zarra and fire dancer/aerialist Alicia Cutaia talk about circus arts and Clowns Without Borders.
Looking at sports and theater and the meanings of rituals, new and old. Plus “The Great Leap,” Portland Panthers and more.
Eleanor O’Brien talks about how the new-works festival has sparked her sex-positive shows. Plus the festival’s Week 2 and the “Anastasia” tour.
Portland plunges into its festival of new works, and “other” theater from “Gatsby” to “Gloria” lights the lights.
Portland’s 13th annual festival of new works Jan. 27-Feb. 6 features 37 online projects, from dance to theater to puppetry and more.
Joel Coen’s movie adaptation is too timid for the tale it tells.
Playwright Lauren Yee returns to Oregon stages with a Center Stage/Artists Rep collaboration; “Thurgood” and “Hedwig” get ready to roll.
The eminent arts educator and former dean of PSU’s School of Fine and Performing Arts shares his long journey that led back to Portland and imparts his advice for the city’s current arts scene
How to keep yourself and others safe in the theater (we’re in this thing together!). Plus an Agatha Christie, Profile’s “Gloria,” Milagro on Lorca.
The multiple Tony-winning musical, in Portland through Sunday, is ‘a small wonder.’ Plus: Poirot at Lakewood, CoHo walks with fire, Fuse postpones.
Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
Cygnet Productions’ radio satire of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” streaming through January, pokes feminist fun at the literary classic.
Are you ready? A trio of productions each brings its own take (and a little music) to the classic Dickens holiday tale.
The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.
Sure, there’s plenty of Dickens in December. But on Oregon stages, it’s Conor McPherson season, too.
Remembering Philip Cuomo, Stephen Sondheim, and Dave Frishberg. Plus: A “Curious” reopening, Christmas Carols everywhere.
DramaWatch Weekly: The beloved actor, director, and leader of CoHo Productions died Saturday after a battle with lymphoma.
Portland’s LGBTQ theater ensemble gets a new home, a new season, and a new way of thinking about how it does business.
This week at the theater: Chewing over the issues in Portland Playhouse’s prism on race and language; “Mean Girls” and 600 Highwaymen hit town; last chances & more.
The star of the rapid-fire one-man show coming Nov. 14 to Portland’s Newmark Theatre talks in an ArtsWatch Q&A about the method behind his miraculous madness.
Imago’s Jerry Mouawad talks about the Covid-era fear factor in Conor McPherson’s tense and anxious stage version of “The Birds.” Plus: Stage openings & closings.
Themes echo and recur in Portland Playhouse’s “Barbecue,” Artists Rep’s “The Chinese Lady,” and “The Weir” in Astoria.
In Celine Song’s play about a tight-knit clan of half-siblings, hell is other people, and they seem to be all in the family.
Also in a busy week: A “Barbecue” at Portland Playhouse, “The Chinese Lady” at Artists Rep, a “Peep” from The Reformers and a “Lonely Vampire” from Imago, “Danse Macabre” returns, plus plays onscreen.
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
As the stage world begins to bustle, Marty Hughley rides herd on the scene, from Shakespeare to Bojangles.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Out of the Covid crisis rises the captivating specter of François Villon, a wild 15th century poet for our times.
Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
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